The Bed Sitting Room Spike Milligan

The bed sitting room is a 1969 british comedy film directed by richard lester starring an ensemble cast of british comic actors and based on the play of the same name it was entered into the 19th berlin international film festival.

The bed sitting room spike milligan.

The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. Set in post nuclear holocaust england where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins amongst endless heaps of ash piles of broken crockery and brick muddy plains and heaps of dentures and old boots. A warning to persons of sensitive disposition they should stay away from spike milligan s the bedsitting room if seeing margaret thatcher as a lifeless parrot a diplomat being pushed round in a mobile lavatory or lady diana doing interval sketches does not appeal stay at home. Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise.

Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise. Patriotically singing god save mrs. Tweedy lord ralph richardson post atomically mutates into a bed sitting room while sixtyish uncombed michael hordern uses the state of general unrest to get into bed with. The bedsitting room is a satirical play by spike milligan and john antrobus it began as a one act play which was first produced on 12 february 1962 at the marlowe theatre in canterbury england where it received good local notices.

I guess someone figured that if it had been such a hit on the stage it couldn t fail as a movie. Ethel shroake long live mrs. The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. The film is an absurdist post apocalyptic satirical black comedy.

Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise. Surreal sometimes morbid sometimes hysterically funny making good use of spike milligan s ability to improvise. Directed by richard lester. However it made little impact on london s theatrical scene for over a year when it was adapted to a longer play and bernard miles put it on at the mermaid.

The bed sitting room was a big hit as a stage play in london s west end for several years in the 1960s. With rita tushingham ralph richardson peter cook dudley moore.